Multiple Streams Approach to Tobacco Control Policymaking in a Tobacco-Growing State

Tobacco farmers and tobacco manufacturers: implications for tobacco control in tobacco-growing developing countries.

Assisting tobacco farmers to transition to non-tobacco alternatives is a key element of comprehensive tobacco control's end-game strategy and specifically required by the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). We examine the historical relationship between tobacco manufacturers and tobacco farmers in the United States, where the duration of the relation...

Tobacco control: a state perspective.

Tobacco-control policies in tobacco-growing states: where tobacco was king.

UNLABELLED POLICY POINTS: The tobacco companies prioritized blocking tobacco-control policies in tobacco-growing states and partnered with tobacco farmers to oppose tobacco-control policies. The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement, which settled state litigation against the cigarette companies, the 2004 tobacco-quota buyout, and the companies' increasing use of foreign tobacco led to a rift betwee...

Tobacco industry allegations of "illegal lobbying" and state tobacco control.

OBJECTIVES This study assessed the perceived effect of tobacco industry allegations of "illegal lobbying" by public health professionals on policy interventions for tobacco control. METHODS Structured interviews were conducted with state health department project managers in all 17 National Cancer Institute-funded American Stop Smoking Intervention Study (ASSIST) states. Documentation and med...

A growing gulf in the terrain of tobacco control.

The theme for World No Tobacco Day on May 31, an annual initiative of WHO and the Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), is plain packaging of tobacco products. Plain packaging prohibits the use of logos, colours, and promotional labelling on cigarettes and handrolled tobacco and gives graphic health warnings more prominence. In the FCTC, the legally binding internat...